The Making of The Beautiful

She felt we were to be living epistles if we were to commend the Gospel
which we preach. With the teaching that undermines faith in the Bible
under the specious pretext of modern thought she had no sympathy.
She saw through its proud claims of superior scholarship, and she paid
her respects to them in several of her poems.
But orthodoxy finds its vital test when one comes to the Atonement and
the Christ that died. Her little booklet, "Songs of the Saviour", sets forth
her position here. Perhaps one of the sweetest in this sphere is the one
in which she brings before us the unbelief of Thomas, and his assertion
that he would not believe except he could put his fingers in the print of
the nails. She says,
"Except we see in His hand the print of the nail that marred it,
Except we see in His side the mark of the spear that scarred it,
We are right to refuse to believe, to challenge His claims and doubt
them, For the wounds are the sign of the Christ, and He will not
come without them.”
The closing verse of that poem brings one to the fact that it is not
enough simply to assert that you believe in the Atonement. There must
be personal appropriation of the purchase of the Crucified One.
Her last stanza reads :
"For it is not enough for our faith
that others have seen and known Him;
But each for himself must see,
and each for himself must own Him; , . ,
And each must touch the print of the nails,
the proof of His claim receiving,
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